St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-02-12
HIGH WATER IN MICHIGAN.
Several Towns Inundated and
ENrther Trouble Feared.


DETROIT, Mich, Feb. IA special
terrible. A panic has seized some of the
people and it is impossible to get estimates
of losses. The water in some places is four
feet deep in many residences and the same
state of affairs prevails in storerooms
Everybody is moving or preparing to move.
Last night was the most exciting the viii
lage has ever experienced. Up to last night
three buildings had been washed away and
demolished, and many others were badly
damaged. Alex. McFarlane'S family are
sick and cut off from assistance. Rain fell
in torrents until about morning, when it
changed to snow, and by daylight fully
eight inches of snow and sleet had fallen.
There is a regular northeastern, with a
twenty-mile wind. The water has risen
two feet in the last four hours and is still
rising. The people are worn out working
night and day to save their property. The
Maple and Grand rivers unite here and
BOTH ARE RAGING.
Specials from other points are to the same
effect, but Lyons seems to be the worst suf-
ferer. Fred Winters, of Charlotte, was
drowned when trying to cross the Thorn
apple river. Three Rivers is surrounded
with water. All the shops have been closed
at that point. The immense lumber piles
of Roberts. ThoTp & Co., and those belong
ing to Vosburg are aflOat. The Lake
Shore track is IN great danger of being
washed away. At Owosso six inches of
snow fell last night and the river is still ris-
ing. A Monroe special says: The river
Ralsin has been slowly rising for the last
twenty-four hours, but the ice has broken a
passage to the lake. The banks of the
river are lined with immense walls of ice
and frozen snow, rising eight to ten feet
above the present high water mark, and
GREAT FIELDS OF ICE
of the same thickness fill the streets ad-
jacent to the river. At Jackson the pres
sure of water in the Grand river in the mill
pond above the city was too great, and last
night the sluces were opened with the re-
suit that the water rose several feet and the
Grand Trunk bridge is now under water.
The Hurd hotel basement has ten feet of
water. Cellars in business blocks in the
center of the town are all flooded from
eighteen inches to two and half feet. The
state fair grounds are submerged, and ON the
large tract of land in the south part of the
city known as MitchelFS addition the water
is up to the floors of the dwellings. The
prison walls stand in the midst of a lake.
Davis hotel barns have three feet of water
in them and the horses have been removed
LATER REPORTS.
BATTLE CREEK, Mich. Feb. 1.-THE
water in Battle Creek and Kalamazoo rivers
continues to rise and the lower portions of
the city are submerged. The water was
never known so high before. Some houses
and bridges are in danger and some mills
and manufactures are closed.
VERMONTvILLE, Mich, Feb. 11.-Never
in the history of the town has the water in
Thornapple river been so high. Up to 2
o'clock this morning it was rapidly rising.
Two large bridges have been swept away
and the railroads are submerged.
Owosso, Mich, Feb. 11.-At 2 o'clock
this afternoon the water was still rising.
Large quantities Of lumber have been
swept away. The residences along the
river are flooded, and the inmates have
moved into the second story. 1t is impossi-
bic to estimate the loss yet. but it will run
we'll up into the thousands.
LANSING. Mich, Feb. 1.-THE danger
from the high water and ice gorges has not
abated The river dropped several inches
after the successful blasting of the gorge at
Sagerow strait last night, but has remained
nearly stationary since. A huge ice gorge
has formed above the Grand Trunk railroad
bridge at Glenn Island park, twenty-five
feet deep and nearly half mile long. A
dynamite party has been working all day
and have cleared the river below, and their
efforts this afternoon to reduce it have been
thus far without avail. Should it break